Everything you always wanted to know about earthworms but were afraid to ask.
From the author of The Earth Moved:On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Moving the Worms

A whole mess of giant Australian earthworms have to be moved to make way for Progress. It's tricky work--it's taken two months, and they've moved 600 earthworms in that time, but with a 20% mortality rate. They may be big, but they're fragile. Sometimes workers would spend two hours brushing the dirt away before they could move them.